Fall smART stART Workshop

We are very excited about our upcoming Fall Workshops hosted November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2011. This year we will be having 3 workshops which focus on specific art disciplines;
Music, Movement, and theVisual Arts. Teachers will be experiencing the art form for themselves as well as learning about our literacy suite. Thanks to the High Museum for providing tickets for our educators the day of their workshop. We are proud to be collaborating with past and new schools this 2011-2012 year!

Preliminary Findings

We have received exciting news from our evaluators! All of our participating schools indicated that students achieved 1 level of competency after participating with the smART stART program!

Students

• Average gains on measured outcomes were positive in all 18 schools and across residencies provided by all professional teaching artists.


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  Positive average gain of approximately one level of competence.
  

Classroom Teachers

• Reported that smART stART had a:
  


• Significant and very significant impact (89%) on student engagement.


• Significant and very significant impact (89%) in using the Arts to teach language and other content areas (85%) as well as creatively teach the required content standards (96%)


• Significant and very significant impact (87%) in meeting the needs of individual students.
  

Teaching Artists

• Positive trends in lesson delivery (96.1%), classroom management (92%) and student participation (97.7%).